Improvement in grain-cradles



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN W. SETTLE, OF GLASGOW, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-CRADLES.

Specification formingvpaft of Letters Patent No. 158,745, dated January12, 1875; application filed v October 3, 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern: Be it known that I, JOHN W. SETTLE, ofGlasgow, in the county of Barren and State of Kentucky., have invented anew and useful Improvement in Grain-Cradle, of which the following is aspecification:

Figure l is a front View of my improved cradle, the suath being brokenaway. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken through the line w x, Fig.l. Fig. 3 is a detail section, taken through the line y y, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention Will first be fully described, and then pointed out in theclaim.

A are the ingers, the rear ends of which.

are secured to a cross-bar, B, in the ordinary manner. The end of thecross-bar B is secured'to the snath O. Upon each iuger A, at the pointwhere the rod usually passes through, is placed a socket, D, which issecured detachably to the fingers` by a small screw passing through saidsocket and into or through the lingers. The sockets D are designed to becast of brass or other suitable material, and have a nipple, d, formedupon their upper sides, to pass through holes in the thus less liable tobreak at that point, while the sockets allow any linger to beconveniently removed and replaced with a new one, should it be broken orwarped, Without disturbing the other lingers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The means for holding together in relative I position the fingers A,cross-bar E, and braces F, consisting of the finger-socket D, having theprojecting soft-metal nipple d and perforated lug d', as shown anddescribed.

JOHN W. SETTLE. Witnesses:

ED. BYEEE, CLARENCE HALL.

